Sheriff's crime log

A short man brandishing a black handgun robbed the Domino’s Pizza store on 21 Mile and Card roads n Macomb Township on Sunday, according to Macomb County Sheriff’s deputies.

The store clerk said the gunman came into the store and asked for all of the money from a cash register, Lt. John Michalke said. The clerk gave the man $2,500 in cash and her cellular telephone and then forced a deliveryman to turn over his wallet and keys to his car, Michalke said.

The vehicle was later located in an adjoining subdivision.

* Deputies chased and caught a man at 5 a.m. on Monday who broke into the Matt’s Jewelry store, Romeo Plank at 21 Mile Road. Michalke said the man police captured is believed to have broken into the same store at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday where he knocked out a front window and stole several bills, a $1,000, $500 and a $1 bill, Michalke said.

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“During the first robbery last week the store’s alarm sounded and the suspect took off moments before deputies arrived,” Michalke said. “This morning one of our deputies was watching the store and saw the man come out, jump into a car and fled.”

Michalke said the suspect was arrested after a short police chase. He is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday.

* Deputies arrested a man on Thursday who broke into a home on Dickinson Street in Mount Clemens and stole numerous marijuana plants. Deputies were alerted to the theft by the homeowner who told authorities that he chased and caught the man.

Michalke said the renter of the home is a licensed medical marijuana caregiver and marijuana is grown in the home. The intruder admitted to deputies he snuck into the home through a bathroom window and stole the plants.

* Deputies Tasered a wanted man when he refused to give himself up.

Friend-of-the-Court deputies went to an apartment in Clinton Township to arrest the man on two felony warrants for possession of dangerous drugs and parole violation and two misdemeanor warrants Michalke said. He refused to surrender and deputies, looking through a window, saw the man run into a bathroom where he tried to hide from deputies.

“The officers got into the house and went to the bathroom where they were forced to Taser the man to control him,” Michalke said.

* A Washington Township man who lives in the 66000 block of Campground Road told police he confronted a man at 4:56 a.m. on Thursday who stole his generator, gasoline tank and chop saw from his garage.

The man said he went to his garage to get wood for his wood-burning stove and saw a white man, approximately 25 years old and wearing dark clothing. The intruder fled and jumped into a dark-colored pick-up truck drove away.

“The homeowner later looked around and noticed several items missing,” Michalke said. “He then saw a large bag of other items of his near the door which the intruder obviously left behind when interrupted.”

Michalke said the items left behind have been taken to the crime lab for finger print analysis. Anyone with information on the theft is asked to call the sheriff’s detective bureau 586-307-9358.

* A 26-year-old Warren man, 26-year-old Clinton Township woman and 31-year-old man from Detroit were arrested by sheriff’s deputies after employees at the CVS Pharmacy on Romeo Plank and 24 Mile roads saw them stealing numerous bottles of high-end liquor and called 911.

Michalke said the employees saw the two men enter the store at 1:25 a.m. on Wednesday and steal the liquor while the woman was driving a distinctive looking Chrysler PT Cruiser with a red-orange flame on the side panel. Employees jotted down the license plate number and called deputies.

Both men admitted to the crime and said they robbed a store in Harrison Township on Jan. 29. The getaway driver denied any involvement in the shoplifting.